Counterfactual conditionals exclude the actual world in their evaluation.

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Is it true that Counterfactual conditionals exclude the actual world in their evaluation?

No. Counterfactual conditionals do not necessarily exclude the actual world; standard semantics (such as Stalnaker's) allow the actual world to be the closest world evaluated when the antecedent is true.

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Wikipedia: Counterfactual conditional

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Wikipedia: Counterfactual conditional. (n.d.). Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterfactual_conditional

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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Indicative Conditionals

When an antecedent is true, the nearest world evaluated is the actual world itself.

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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Indicative Conditionals. (n.d.). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/conditionals/

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